Friendly Tyrants
Author | : Adam Garfinkle |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 1991-10-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781349216765 |
ISBN-13 | : 1349216763 |
Rating | : 4/5 (763 Downloads) |
Download or read book Friendly Tyrants written by Adam Garfinkle and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-10-31 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the South Vietnamese government, the Shah and Ferdinand Marcos have in common? All were allied to the United States; all defied democratic and liberal norms; and all three fell in a blaze, creating problems for the United States. These three cases - and another eighteen more - are the subject of Friendly Tyrants, the first study ever to survey the contentious, persistent problem of U.S. government relations with pro-American authoritarian rulers.